Shanghai Pediatric Emergency

Shanghai Pediatric Emergency

Many of us, especially expat parents in Shanghai, still remember the tragic ending of Mehmet, the three-year-old British/Turkey boy who passed away in 2013. When I read the news, tears flowed down my cheeks and still do now as I write. My mother lost her son, my brother, when he was 34 and I saw, first hand, the anguish she went through. It took her a long time to heal.

What can we fellow expats in Shanghai do during a medical emergency, especially one that concerns our young children? Cathy Hsu, a long-time expat in Shanghai, developed an app, Baby 120, to help parents and caretakers locate nearby pediatric emergency rooms in Shanghai.